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John (sou of Piers le Poer), Baron of Donoyll, had another about Coulgarvyr, 1 

 Graneton, and Arddrastne, Co. "Waterford, probably the Clunade, Garvrus, 

 and Arddrasten of the early charter of Henry Puher. John le Poer, Baron 

 of Donoil, also acknowledged a debt of 1000 silver marks to John Wogan. 2 

 Later on, iu 1316, John was collector of a subsidy for the King's army at 

 Greencastle under the Justiciar Edmund le Botiller, and again names his 

 father, Piers le Poer. He received a pardon on account of his services to the 

 Crown, and was one of the numerous debtors of the astute firm of money- 

 lenders, " the Lucca merchants," to whom he owed £85 to be repaid in 

 instalments of £10. In 1322, he was commissioned to inquire about felonies 

 and the followers of Theobald fitz William le Botiller, in Co. Waterford. 3 It 

 was probably a later John, Baron of Don Isle (as Smith calls it), who gave 

 security for good behaviour to Bermingham, the Lord Justice, at Waterford, 

 about 1350. In 1347, the King pardoned John fitz Peter le Poer, Baron de 

 Donnoyle. 4 The grandson of John fitz Piers, Nicholas le Poer, was summoned 

 to Parliament as a baron from 1375 to 1381. It was about this time (as I have 

 noted in the earlier part of this paper in the history of Dunalong) that the 

 bitter feud between the Poers and the city of Waterford came to a head by the 

 former bringing in the O' hEidersceoils. Though the allies triumphed, and 

 John Malpas, the brave Mayor of Waterford, fell, the allies also lost their 

 leader, the Baron of Dunoill, his brother Bennet le Poer, and many others. 

 The feud never ended till Baltimore and the two castles of Dunnishead and 

 Dunalong were finally destroyed by the citizens of Waterford in 1537. 5 The 

 territorial barony, as so often in Ireland, was becoming a personal one. Poer's 

 son Walter was Baron of Dunoyl, 1393-1435. The successive Barons after that 

 are John (1471), Walter (1529), Nicholas (1550), Eobert (1587), 6 Nicholas 

 (1635), and John le Poer the last Baron of Dunhill, whose wife defended the 

 castle against the Parliament, and got terms of capitulation. John was trans- 

 planted to Connacht about 1652, and we hear of no descendant. 7 A collateral 



1 Carew Calendar, vol. iv, p. 462. 



2 Plea R. No. 102, v Ed. II, m. 39. 



3 Pat. R., xiii Ed. II, No. 16, facie, 20 July, and dorso 74, and grant to same of 

 Balicoyn and Killogheran. 



1 Aug. 8, at Cashel, Pat. R., xx Ed. Ill, m. 31. 



5 Miscellany of the Celtic Society. 



G Inq. Exchr. Eliz., No. 30. In 1586, Robert Poore, of Kilmedon, who died July 4th, 

 held the vill. and castle of Donhill with Killaryse, Ballinageeragh, &c. He is not 

 described as Baron of Donhill. 



7 An Inquisition (Car. II. an. xx, Aug. 23, Exchr.) finds that Richard, Lord Power, 

 held Kilcopp in Galtiyer. Tramore, in Dromcannane Parish, Middlethird, was held by 

 Margaret Power, widow, and restored by the Court of Claims. 



